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Guitar: Talking Pop Art (Tom Paxton cover) (Including lyrics and chords)

1,357 views · Published 25 August 2009 · 2:14 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

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As you know if you are a follower of my videos, Tom Paxton is my all-time favourite performer and this was one of his early numbers I liked both for its style and humour.

Talking Pop Art
Tom Paxton
No capo

C                                      F
When I went out for a walk last week
  G
I passed a shop they called a boutique.
C                            F                  G 
Fancy dresses of every size, fancy wigs to pop your eyes.
C                 F                               G                                      C
Bracelets, diamond rings, .... stuff for women too!

Well I didn’t want to see no more, I went into a grocery store,
I took down a can of beans, I took a dollar out of my jeans,
A fella said, “Hold it! Where d’ya think you’re goin’?
That’ll be three hundred dollars.”

Well a feather could have knocked me down,
I mean I knew this was a high priced town,
But this was getting hard to take
I said, “What the hell do you get for steak?”
“It ain’t just a can of beans you know, .... it’s a work of art!”

Well now I see what the poor man means
He’s proud of that little can of beans.
I didn’t hear what else he said, 
I had my eyes on a loaf of bread,
White bread, four hundred dollars, .... three for a thousand!

Just about then a crowd came in
And pickings must have been mighty slim,
Because in just a minute, or three, or four,
They cleaned out that whole grocery store.
They bought brooms, fought over water melons.
One fella put down a pickle and said,
“I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like!”

Well as I stood there wondering why,
Two little fellas came cruisin’ by,
Little brown suits and little black ties,
One of them looked at me and said, “My! How rustic! I bid a thousand!”
I said, “I beg your pardon?” “It talks! I bid five thousand!”

So here I stand in my Superman’s suit,
And everybody says I’m cute,
I try to tell them, but they will not see
And they hang their hats and coats on me,
Still a job’s a job! But if I had my preference, I’d rather be Batman!

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